Rewinding February | My Top 10 Albums Of The Month
From where I sit, February was not the greatest month for new music. In fact, next to January — which gave us memorable titles from Andy Shauf, Black Lips,...
Back Stories | My Album Reviews From Feb. 11, 2000
Two decades ago, new albums from Primal Scream, Michael Penn, Robert Palmer, Kittie and others were spinning away in my portable CD player. Here’s what I had to say...
Back Stories | My 2011 Interview With Gang of Four Guitarist Andy Gill
The world is a little quieter and far worse off today: Gang of Four’s Andy Gill has died. The influential and iconic guitarist passed away in a London hospital...
Back Stories | My 2010 Interview with Rush’s Neil Peart
Like every other Canadian rock fan — and every other drummer who spent decades in a futile quest to play half as well as he did — I was...
Back Stories | My 2011 Interview With Lemmy from Motörhead
Like any music journalist, I've been asked the same question countless times: Who are the coolest rock stars you've interviewed? Lemmy from Motörhead is always close to the top...
Rewinding the 2000s (So Far) | My Top Albums of The Past 20 Years
This site has only been around since 2018. But I've been churning out album reviews — and year-end lists — since the dawn of time (or at least that's...
Back Stories | My Favourite Albums of 1999
I’ve never been very good at sifting through 1,000 album reviews and whittling them all down to a Top 10 list. So here, in typically haphazard form, are my...
Rewinding 2019 | The Top Videos
I have said it before. I am saying it again: If there's one thing I've learned from running this site, it's that people love music videos. And here's the...
Rewinding 2019 | The Master Album List
This doesn't include every album I heard or reviewed in 2019. But it does have almost everything I thought was worth remembering. I'd call that a good start. To...
Rewinding 2019 | The Busiest Bodies
Back in the '60s and '70s, bands routinely put out two and even three albums a year. Thankfully, there are still a few artists who remember those days —...
Rewinding 2019 | From Beyond & Back
Theses artists are gone, but their musical legacies live on — sometimes with a little help from fellow artists. Here are the best and the rest of this year's...
Rewinding 2019 | The Most Heroic Guitarists
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Rewinding 2019 | The Throwbacks
Some wheels don't need to be reinvented. And some bands don't even bother to try. Instead, they're happy to stick to what they do best or love best —...
Rewinding 2019 | The Most Powerful Supergroups
Look! At the top of your playlist! It's a pop star! It's a rock god! No, it's a supergroup! And no wonder: In a year when nearly every hit...
Rewinding 2019 | The Dynamic Duos
Three might be the magic number, but in music, as you may have heard, it takes two to make a thing go right — and make an album that's...
